Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


season OF Chinese drama.
THE other day while William Cole was
| driving the stage between Nevada City and
North Bloomfield he saw six quail that ap
| pearcd to be snow blind. He jumped out OF
the sleigh and caught them alive.
| MRS GEORGE SAGE, Of Harlan, Ia, Is re-
ported to have Travelled IA. 900 mi es in pursuit
OF her husband, who last fall ran of with the
hreu girl. She doesn't care particularly Tor
the man, but she has nothing else to do ana Is
| fond Of travel.
In many parts Of France heavy machinery
is run by artesian well power. The deeper
| the well the greater the pressure a well at
| Grenele has pressure of 80 pounds to the
| square inch, and the water is 80 hot that 1t is
USED for heating The hospitals in the vicinity.
SARAH CHURCHMAN (aso known as Sarah
| Schafer). a slave whom the late Mr.. Beecher
| raised money to purchase freedom for
| twenty-five or twenty-siX years ago is said
| to be still livingEat PeeNskll, N. Y, where
| the Plymouth Church people bought farm
| for her at that time.
BROOKLYN furnishes transportation tickets
to certain employees. Those of the City Works
Department numbered 6l5 in the year 1885,
and got along with 49, 900 tickets costing =, 800.
Last year the number of employees decreased
| to 543, while their needs for transportation
| increased to nearly 100000 tickets, costing
| over $4,000.
WILSON BARNETT says American audiences
lack something that is essential to an actors
success In reaching the highest points IN his
art. He considers American hotel bartenders.
however. the most accom- lished men III the
world. He says n New York champagne
| cocktail is triumph ofgenius that reconclles
man to anything,
THE first railroad was built in England on
Sept. ", 1925; second, In Austria, Sept. 80.
1928; third, in France, Oct. /, 1928: fourth, in
the United States Dec. 2S, 1929; fifth, in Bel
gum, May 3, 1885; sixth, in Germany. Dec. Z,
1898, and, seventh, in Cuba. in 1887; and
eleven years after. Oct. "A, l84S, was built the
first railroad in Spain.
A CHICAGO gambler who had been playing
in hard luck, borrowed a counterfeit silver
dollar from friend and m ade str light for the
nearest faro bank. He met with phenome al
success, and Oh quitting the game was 1921
| ahead. As he was leavi ing the place he boast
ed of his trick, and was at once lgnomlniously
Kicked into the street.
Two more centenarans have come to light.
One is Mrs. Priscilla Goodseli, Of Norwalk
Conn.,, who was 100 years old a week ago; and
| the other Is Mrs. Patsey Nelson, of Cole Hill,
| 5. c., who is 10Y years old, and has twelve
children, seventy slX grandchildren, eighty
| nine grandchildren, and thirty seven
| great-great grandchildren
IF the German Fishery Commission sue
ceeds it will place, this spring. 1000 salmon
n the Rhine and Weser, each fish bearin & a
| tiny silver plate marked "lSS7.' The prob
lem will lie TO affix such a plate so that it Will
not injure the fish, and yet retain its place.
| Experiments to that end are under examina-
| ion at the Berlin Aquarium.
THE use of the gall of rattlesnakes IS warm
! ly urged by NJ. Koscicky, OF Austria, as an
antidote for snake bites. NJ. Koscicky who
became acquainted with the antidote in Vene-
To ha fNnaH ,,Tx u
| effective, as well as instantaneous in it's oper-
alton, crows and dogs in the last stage of the
| poison recovering Immediately on the remedy
| being administered TO them,
A POEM ascribed to Edgar Allan Poe, en-
titled The Fire Flend," was published re-
Gently in the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
| A correspondent writes that it was the pro-
| ductiOn of G. ID. Gardette. who was chal-
| lenged to write poem in the manner of
| The Raven which should be accepted as a
| genuine production OF Poe. THE Fire Fiend"
| W as the result-a most successful one.
Mr.. BEECHER's last freak IN gems was
couple of Assyran cylinders, which are
worn as watch charms. They are. next to
| scarabei, the antiduest antiques. MIR. Beecher
! gravely informed friend not long
ago that DIR. Schliem an had verified the
exact date of the Moabite stone, because he
| had traced out the Chaldaic numerals, which
| showed that it was marked thus: 1887 b. G."
|
nal, says that in Belgium, Lieux is literally a
| city of the insane. at has a population OF
100000 he said, land contains about 100 first
class and 1000 second class boarding houses.
where parties of two and thrt insane per-
| sons are kept in board at reasonable prices.
| The people are mostly farmers. and the IN
\ sane bOarGers occupy their time at farming
and other occupations, never being allowed 10
| Overwork Themselves There has not been
homicide there in thirty slX years.
! THE unveiling of the statue of Louis Blanc
| in the Place Monge took place the other day.
| The ceremony was attended BY representa-
| tiyes of the ministry and both houses of the
| Legislature. The speakers expatiated on NJ.
| u anc's merits as historian, but he was
chiefly euoIzed as the promoter of social re
forms. At the conclusion of the ceremony
| there was a got deal OF Kissing and Disturb
! ance. and cries of Long live anarchy !" were
| raised. A number of men, supposed to ue
| Anarchists, attempted to force their way into
| the Enclosure round the statue, but were
| stopped by the police and sharp scuffie en-
| sIed. Several arrests were made finally.
wELL-KNowN Boston insurance agent re-
gently called upon native Of the Emerald
Isle, who was already carrying one life pol
| icy in another company, but who, as the se-
quel would indicate, Is rather losing faith in
the benefits accrung from insurance. Now,
Pat" said the agent, II want to put you
into my company for 81, 900 at least. What do
YOU say" bad luck to the one o. me wants
any more o. your life insurance. Here I've
been putin out money'for nothin' for the
last ten years and divi a sign o. my dyin'
vet. This insurance business is q humbug, so
it is" What Pat wanted, evidently. was to
get into some company that should guarantee
that his funeral and the money should be
speedily forthcoming.
ACCORDING to recent experiments, the vi
tally of the teeth seems to be almost as great
as that of seeds. DR.. W. j. Younger. in a re
cent paper read before the California Dental
Society. describes the planting OF bcuspid
tooth, which had been extracted year be-
fore. No care had been taken Of the tooth
il having been carried about for time in
travelling bag, and part of the time shnffled
about ina bureau drawer. To all appearances
the tooth was dry and void of vitality. ON
soak ing ii IN warm water for half an hour
however. and then placing 1t in the cavity Of
the Jaw the tooth soon became firmly 1xed
and on the twelfth day was firmly united
true vital connection having, 10 is SAID been
established between the living environment
OF gum and the alveolar substance. But IL
may be case Of encysting. as OF bullet
lodged in the body.
TBERE has been much talk OF the physica,
exercise that MIR. Beecher took; but one Of
the earliest and most amusing features of 4
remains to be mentioned. When BUDDING
fame came upon him he very quickly discoy-
cred that a man could not safely drive HI,
brain under continuous hIAh pressure without
at the same time exercising his BODY His
means were then small and his domee liz sur